Karsten Gerloff

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About Karsten Gerloff

Karsten Gerloff is the President of the Free Software Foundation
Europe. FSFE's mission as an independent not-for-profit organisation
is to promote freedom in the information society through Free
Software.

Karsten Gerloff works together with developers, activists,
business leaders and high-level political decision makers in order
to create an environment where Free Software can reach its full
potential. He leads FSFE's participation in community and policy
processes at the European and global level, and is a frequent
speaker at a wide variety of conferences and events.

Karsten Gerloff has conducted extensive research on the economic and
social effects of Free Software for the European Commission and other
clients, and has led the development of training materials for Free
Software entrepreneurs in Southern and Eastern Africa.

Public Procurement: Free Software's Wild Frontier. In: Shane Coughlan
(ed.): Thoughts on Open Innovation. Essays on Open Innovation from
leading thinkers in the field. OpenForumAcademy, 2013. Available for
download
(PDF, 320 kB).

Study on the effect on the development of the information society of
European public bodies making their own software available as open
source. Final report. (January 2008)
Rishab A. Ghosh, Rüdiger Glott, Karsten Gerloff, Patrice Emmanuel
Schmitz, Kamini Aisola, Abdelkrim Boujraf